The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-24

modern society, might have protracted
their lives 10 30 great an age. To my
mind no such conclusion can be drawn
from their history. It was a positive
declaration Of Omnipotence "yet his
days shall be an hundred and twenty
years." And since then fifty years
more have been taken from the number
OF his days.
Rationalism alone demonstrates the
absolute necessity Of snch a course. II
seventy years are sufficient for Van.
derbilt or q Gould to amass their hum
dreds OF millions, give few such nearly
thousand years In which to operate,
and there would not be much for the
balance Of creation. Let but the reck.
less and abandoned in crime, know that
they have eight or nine hundred yeafs
to revel in wantonness and iniquity, and
who can imagine what giants in wicked.
ness and crime the world would pro-
duce.
When We realize the fact that human
nature is the same to-day that it was
when the Pharoahs sat upon the throne
Of Egypt, when Moses led the rebcllious
and stubborn hosts Of Israel from the
land Of bondage, we can in some degree
comprehend the necessity Of the meas.
ures taken to impress on the world the
great truths Of the moral law. The first,
the grandest. and the one that under
lies and over.rides all others, II am the
Lord thy God. Thou shalt have NO
other gods before Me; thou shalt not
bow down thyself to them nor serve
them" And yet with the daily and
nightly manifestation of the power Of
the great I Am, the pillar of cloud by
day, and the pillar of fire by night, the
highway walled on either side by the
waters Of the Red Sea, the nation assem-.
bled around the base Of the quaking
mountain, while God gave His law to
their leader, failed to impress on the
minds Of many Of that stubborn nation
this great truth. When the mighty
host that came out Of Egypt lay rotting
in the wilderness, and their children
were about to enter the promised land,
their venerable leader gave them as his
parting instruction the Lords cove.
nant-"The Lord shall open unto thee
his great treasure, to bless all the work
of thy hand, and thou shalt lend unit ,
many nations and thou shalt not borrow.
But if thou shalt hearken not to the
voice of the Lord thy God, He shall
bring a nation against thee, q nation
from afar, and He shall besiege thee in
all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
walls come down. And thou shalt eat
the fruit of thine own body, the flesh OF
thy sons and of thy daughters, in the
siege and in the straitness wherewith
thine enemies shall distress thee" This
terrible and prophetic language was lit.
orally fulfilled on that devoted people,
after the lapse Of more than fourteen
hundred years. When the Roman le-
gione closed around her walls, all the
horrors depicted in this denunciation
came to pass. Not one stone was left
upon, another of her walls, and her
beautiful temple was razed to the
ground.
"The carnal mind u enmity against
God; it is not subject to the will Of God,
neither indeed can be-" But is it neces.
sary to argue proposition in this en-.
lightened age that stands in blazing let
ters on every page of mans history.
Nor is the present living age of to-day
any less striking example than the
ages past. Our own nation has just
passed through sea of blood as dark
and deep as that which overwhelmed
Pharoah and his host. Europe tremblea
to-day beneath the tread Of millions oi
armed men. Even far.off Africa feels
the scourge of war.
But let US turn from mans animal
nature and his unbridled passions, to
contemplate his nobler spiritual ele.
ments. That nature which induced
Omnipotent love, amid all the magni.
tude and grandeur Of creation to be
"mindful of him." ''Thou hast made
him little lower than the angels u
The angels are not subject to death,
while man is. Yet death 10 only separa.
tion. The immortal spirit, that emena.
ton of deity, which Ged gave to man
when he breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and man became . livins
soul, leaves its clay tenement, and takes
its flight to the spirit-land, while that
casket returns to Mother Earth, to come
forth at the final resurrection sublim.
ated and refined, to be reunited with
that disembodied spirit. Then like the
angels, death will have no more domin'
ion.
But it 10 with the living present, the
spiritual life of to-day We have to do.
That higher and nobler type of man.
hood; that which entities man to the
visitation of infinite mercy, and the sac.
ri6ce Of Gods Son to redeem him from
the bondage of sin and death. We are
not left without . witness, : ta,cher, q
oui0s, and IN 6dvoca4e = ereas High
Priest. We have glanced momeutarily